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Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by tsimionescu on Sunday September 18, 2022 @02:00AM (#32884833)
99.9% of the audience will strain to see what is going on, but let's blame their screen buying acumen (and their viewing practices - even the best screen will not make those scenes easily watchable in a sunny room, which is how most people watch TV) instead of making them actually watchable.
Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by Godel_unicode on Sunday September 18, 2022 @02:31AM (#32884984)
What part of “seems like a problem for the producers of bad screens to solve” makes it seem like this is blaming the people who buy the screens and not the people that make the screens.

Don’t make the art worse, hold the manufacturers accountable for selling terrible products.

Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by dmitriid on Sunday September 18, 2022 @02:53AM (#32885109)
Art is worse though. From intangible sludge https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-d... to modern DPs and directors not being able to film a dark scene competently https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1564633641828884483
Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by zimpenfish on Sunday September 18, 2022 @05:01AM (#32885758)
James Stephanie Sterling did a video a long time ago (which I currently cannot find) about "the best game for your HD TV" and concluded (IIRC) that it was Viva Pinata because of the ludicrous colourfulness of the game which really showed off the power of HD TVs. Contrasted with the "intangible sludge" of the Dooms, Quakes, etc.
Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by dmitriid on Sunday September 18, 2022 @05:11AM (#32885810)
Now I have the urge to play that and Guacamele will n myy brand new OLED :)
Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on Sunday September 18, 2022 @07:30AM (#32886613)
> colors, what happened to them?

Did movies and TV copy video games' Real Is Brown trope?

Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by ConceptJunkie on Sunday September 18, 2022 @09:58PM (#32893426)
Color is going away from too many things. Also cars... and for some reason, Taco Bells.
Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by tsimionescu on Sunday September 18, 2022 @08:52AM (#32887125)
> Don’t make the art worse, hold the manufacturers accountable for selling terrible products.

A big part of this is the viewing conditions. The best screen in the world will not make a dark scene watchable in a bright sunny room. And lots of people watch TV in bright sunny rooms.

Also, better screens = more money. A lot of the time, people just bought a cheap screen, and they would still like to know what happens in the series or movies they watch.

I am absolutely for quality interesting dark scenes in cinema, where both the screen and viewing conditions are normalized. But TV is not the same (and HBO and Netflix are TV).

Re:Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turne... by watwut on Sunday September 18, 2022 @05:43AM (#32885985)
The screens and sound setups are fine. The movies are bad products here.